JoyHawkinsMD

Anesthesiology • Aurora, CO

Obstetrical Anesthesiology

Professor of Anesthesiology University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Office
13123 E 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
Phone+1 720-848-0000

Fax+1 303-724-1761

Summary

Dr. Joy Hawkins is an anesthesiologist based in Aurora, CO, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine specializing in Obstetrical Anesthesiology. Her education included an internship at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, a residency from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and fellowships in Obstetric Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Her career has included positions as Professor at the University of Colorado Hospital and previously as an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. She has extensive experience in graduate medical education and obstetrical anesthesiology. Dr. Hawkins has numerous publications in respected journals and she is a frequent invited speaker. Her hard work and dedication is recognized by the numerous awards she has received, including Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Outstanding Faculty in Obstetrical Anesthesia, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology and Distinguished Alumnus from the Texas A&M School of Medicine.

Education & Training

University Of Texas Health Science CenterFellowship, Critical Care Medicine, 1985
University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonResidency, Anesthesiology, 1982 - 1984
Baylor College of MedicineFellowship, Obstetric Anesthesiology, 1984
St. Joseph Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1981 - 1982
Texas A&M; Health Science Center College of MedicineClass of 1981
Texas A&M UniversityB.S, 1974 - 1977

Certifications & Licensure

CO State Medical License 1991 - 2025
TX State Medical License 1981 - 2024
American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Outstanding Faculty in Obstetrical Anesthesia
Top Teacher Award, Department of Anesthesiology
Resident Mentor Award
Outstanding Teacher of the Year
American Board of Anesthesiology; Oral Board examiner 1991-2022
Chief Resident Anesthesiology UTHSC 1984-1985
Outstanding Intern St. Joseph Hospital 1982
Valedictorian Texas A & M College of Medicine 1981
Outstanding Senior Texas A & M College of Medicine 1981
Alpha Omega Alpha
American Medical Women's Association Award of Achievement
FAER Academy of Education Mentors in Anesthesiology
Top Doctor 5280 Magazine
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

6 citations
Obstetric Hemorrhage.
Joy L Hawkins
Anesthesiology Clinics. 2020-12-01
9 citations
Aplastic anemia during pregnancy: a review of obstetric and anesthetic considerations.
Efrain Riveros-Perez, Amy C Hermesch, Linda A. Barbour, Joy L. Hawkins
International Journal of Women's Health. 2018-02-28
Foreword.
Joy L Hawkins
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2017-06-01

Journal Articles

Anesthetic deaths during obstetric delivery in the United States, 1979-1990.
Hawkins JL, Koonin LM, Palmer SK, Gibbs CP, Atrash H, Anesthesiology
A patient with severe peripartum cardiomyopathy and persistent ventricular fibrillation supported by a biventricular assist device.
Colombo J, Lawal AH, Bhandari A, Hawkins JL, Atlee JL, J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
Maternal mortality in the United States: Where are we going and how will we get there?
Hawkins JL, Birnbach DJ, Anesth Analg
Process and pitfalls in the development of practice guidelines for obstetric anesthesia.
Hawkins JL, IJOA
Certified nurse midwives, obstetric anesthesia and you.
Hawkins JL, ASA Newsletter
The effect of spinal anesthesia on the success rate of external cephalic version: a randomized trial.
Dugoff L, Stamm CA, Jones OW, Mohling SI, Hawkins JL, Obstet Gynecol
Practice guidelines for obstetrical anesthesia.
Task Force on Obstetrical Anesthesia, Hawkins JL, Anesthesiology
Comparative evaluation of four different infusion rates of ropivacaine (2 mg/ml) for epidural labor analgesia.
Cascio MG, Gaiser RR, Camann WR, Venkateswaran P, Hawkins JL, McCarthy D, Cascio MG, Gaiser RR, Camann WR, Venkateswaran P, Hawkins JL, McCarthy D
General anesthesia for cesarean section: are we really prepared?
Hawkins JL, Gibbs CP, IJOA
Use of Labor-Delivery-Recovery (LDR) rooms.
Hawkins JL, Gibbs CP, Orleans M, Martin-Salvaj G, Beaty B, Anesthesiology
Oral intake policies on labor and delivery - a national survey.
Hawkins JL, Gibbs CP, Orleans M, Martin-Salvaj G, Beaty B, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Obstetric anesthesia workforce survey, 1981 versus 1992.
Hawkins JL, Gibbs CP, Orleans M, Martin-Salvaj G, Beaty B, Anesthesiology
Cardiovascular alterations in severe pregnancy-induced hypertension: Effects of intravenous nitroglycerin coupled with blood volume expansion.
Cotton DB, Longmire S, Jones MM, Dorman KR, Tessem JH, Joyce TH, Am J Obstet Gynecol
A reevaluation of the association between instrumental delivery and epidural analgesia.
Hawkins JL, Hess, KR, Kubicek MA, Joyce TH, Morrow DH, Regional Anesthesia
Post-cesarean section analgesia: a comparison of epidural butorphanol and morphine.
Palacios QT, Jones MM, Hawkins JL, Adenwala JN, Longmire S, Hess KR, Skjonsby BS, Morrow DH, Joyce TH, Can J Anaesth
The hemodynamic effects of intubation during nitroglycerin infusion in severe preeclampsia.
Longmire S, Leduc L, Jones MM, Hawkins JL, Joyce TH, Am J Obstet Gynecol
Vecuronium for rapid-sequence intubation for cesarean section.
Hawkins JL, Johnson TD, Kubicek MA, Skjonsby BS, Morrow DH, Joyce TH, Anesth Analg
The effect of H2-receptor antagonist premedication on the duration vecuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade in postpartum patients.
Hawkins JL, Adenwala J, Camp C, Joyce TH, Anesthesiology
Repeat cesarean section in a patient with previous cortical vein thrombosis.
Tessem JH, Younker D, Anesth Analg
Role of volume expansion in severe preeclampsia.
Kirshon B, Moise K, Cotton D, Longmire S, Jones MM, Tessem JH, Joyce TH, Surg Gyn Ob
Vecuronium and prolonged neuromuscular blockade in post partum patients.
Camp CE, Tessem JH, Adenwala J, Joyce TH, Anesthesiology
Bupivacaine-fentanyl epidural analgesia for a parturient in status asthmaticus.
Younker D, Clark R, Tessem JH, Joyce TH, Kubicek M, Can J Anesth
Role of intravenous nitroglycerin in the treatment of severe pregnancy induced hypertension complicated by pulmonary edema.
Cotton DB, Jones MM, Longmire S, Dorman KF, Tessem JH, Joyce TH, Am J Obstet Gynecol
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Books/Book Chapters

Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Chapter: Complications in Anesthesia
Hawkins JL and Monk TGEditors: Atlee JL.W.B. Saunders
Anesthetic Considerations for Complicated Pregnancies.
Chapter: Creasy & Resnick’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice
Hawkins JLElsevierEdition 7th,
Near Misses and Maternal Mortality.
Chapter: Shnider and Levinson’s Anesthesia for Obstetrics
Hawkins JLWolters-KluerEdition 5th,
Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy.
Chapter: Complications in Anesthesia
Hawkins JLEditors: Atlee JL.Saunders ElsevierEdition 2nd,
Anesthesia-related Maternal Mortality.
Chapter: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hawkins JLEditors: Hawkins JL.
Obstetric Anesthesia.
Chapter: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hawkins JL
Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia.
Chapter: Danforth’s Obstetrics & Gynecology
Hawkins JLEditors: Gibbs RS, Haney A, Karlan B, Scott JR.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 9th,
Anesthesia-related Maternal Mortality.
Chapter: Shnider and Levinson’s Anesthesia for Obstetrics
Hawkins JL, Bassell GM, Marx GFEditors: Hughes S, Levinson G, Rosen M.Lippincott Williams & WilkinsEdition 4th,
Anesthesia for Operative Obstetrics.
Chapter: Operative Obstetrics
Hawkins JLEditors: Hankins GDV, Clark SL, Cunningham FG, Gilstrap LC.McGraw-HillEdition 2nd,
The Pregnant Cardiac Patient.
Chapter: Decision Making in Anesthesiology
Hawkins JLEditors: Bready LL, Mullins RM, Noorily SH, Smith RB.MosbyEdition 3rd,
Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy.
Chapter: Complications in Anestheisa
Hawkins JLEditors: Atlee JL.W.B. Saunders
Critical Care of Obstetric Patients.
Chapter: Critical Care Practice
Hawkins JL, Jones MM, Joyce THEditors: Hoyt JW, Tonnesen AS, Allen SJ.WB Saunders Company, PhiladelphiaEdition 1st,
A Nineties Update: Nonobstetric Anesthesia for the Pregnant Patient.
Chapter: Advances in Anesthesia
Hawkins JL
Anesthesia for the Pregnant Patient Undergoing Nonobstetric Surgery.
Chapter: ASA Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology
Hawkins JL
Combined Spinal-Epidural Obstetrical Anesthesia (monograph).
Chapter: Clinical Dialogues on Regional Anesthesia: Customized Medical Communications
Hawkins JL
Obstetric Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Chapter: An Update in Obstetrics and Gynecology: ACOG
Hawkins JLEditors: Precis VI.Edition 3rd,
Obstetric Anesthesia.
Chapter: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies
Hawkins JL, Chestnut DH, Gibbs CPEditors: Gabbe SG, Niebyl J, Simpson JL.Churchill Livingstone IncEdition 3rd,
Anesthesia for the Pregnant Patient Requiring Non-Obstetrical Surgery.
Chapter: ASA Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology
Gibbs CP, Hawkins JL
The Obstetric Patient for Elective or Emergency Non-Obstetric Surgery.
Chapter: International Practice of Anaesthesia
Gibbs CP, Hawkins JLEditors: Prys-Roberts C, Brown BR.Butterworth Heinemann
Pregnancy-induced Hypertension-USA.
Chapter: Pain Relief and Anesthesia in Obstetrics
Hawkins JLEditors: Ostheimer GW.Churchill Livingstone
Postpartum Tubal Sterilization.
Chapter: Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice
Hawkins JLEditors: Chestnut DH.Mosby Yearbook
Anesthesia and Preeclampsia/Eclampsia.
Chapter: Obstetric Anesthesia
Hawkins JLEditors: Norris MC.J.B. Lippincott Company, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
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Abstracts/Posters

Update on U.S. obstetric anesthesia practices.
Hawkins JL, Beaty BR, Gibbs CP, Anesthesiology
Practice guidelines for obstetric anesthesia, an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists task force on obstetric anesthesia.
Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia, Hawkins JL, Anesthesiology
What's new in obstetric anesthesia?
Hawkins JL, Current Obstetric Medicine
Providing Anesthesia for the Morbidly Obese Patient.
Hawkins JL, Seminars in Anesthesia
ASA Obstetrical Anesthesia Guidelines.
Hawkins JL, Seminars in Anesthesia
What’s New With SOAP?
Hawkins JL, ASA Newsletter
Revised practice guidelines for obstetric anesthesia.
Hawkins JL, ASA Newsletter
FAER annual meeting resident scholar program: grooming anesthesia’s next generation of leaders.
Hawkins JL, ASA Newsletter
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Lectures

New Horizons in Anesthesiology
Emory University School of Medicine, Steamboat Springs, Colorado - 2/16/2013
2012 CSA Spring California Anesthesia Seminar
California Society of Anesthesiologists, Dana Point, California - 4/19/2012
Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP).
Puerto Rico
Holiday Seminars Cancun Anesthesia, 4 lectures.
Cancun, Mexico
Colorado Review of Anesthesia for Surgi-Centers and Hospitals (CRASH), 2 lectures on obstetric anesthesia.
Vail
Emory Anesthesiology meeting, 4 lectures.
Steamboat Springs
Pinnacle Partners in Medicine 10th Annual Conference, 2 lectures.
Dallas, TX
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Press Mentions

Using Marijuana and Having Surgery? Tell Your AnesthesiologistAugust 9th, 2019
If You Smoke Pot, Your Anesthesiologist Needs to KnowAugust 2nd, 2019
SOAP Presents the 2016 Sol Shnider, M.D Obstetric Anesthesia MeetingMarch 10th, 2013
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Committees

Task Force Chair, American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Standards and Practice Parameters 2016 - Present